Thursday Night Riding Fun

Hey guys, so sorry for not posting, but things have been busy! So Thursday night was an awesome night, and It really made me proud :) (almost to the point of happy tears) So we decided we wanted to ride the horses up, so we went out in search of them, and I being my klutzy self fell into a fence and now my arm has a nice bruise and scratch. So then after slowly making our way across the field through many many water holes/mud holes, we finally got to the horses. I walked up to Chuck thinking okay, I guess I really didn't need to bring out the brush for you, but then got a look at his other side lol glad I brought a curry with me :)

 

After we brushed them off, I gave Roni a leg up and then made an attempt to get on Chuck, at first he wouldn't stand by the fence and it was my fault too, because the fence I tried to stand on was falling apart, so I don't blame him because I was nervous, so I tried backing him up a few times and that wasn't working, so I decided to do a little ground work, I had him go around me four times, and then tried again and he stood perfectly :) So we started riding up and if you were following Roni's or my blogs you would have known Jack had a buddy sour/bolting problem which left me and roni in the dirt/mud multiple times last winter, and some of those were even with a saddle. Well all the other horses freaked out at something or got excited and decided they needed to come up from behind and blow by us at a gallop, to say the least Jack got a little excited and tried to go for a gallop too.  At first Roni froze up for a second, suprised, then she tried to stop him normally, that wasn't working so I yelled one rein stop to her, and she did it, and got him back under control. He spun in circles for a little bit and she got him calmed down. We continued on our way and the horses decided they should run again, and again she got him under control. I would also like to mention that she was riding him in a halter AND bareback!  :) I will say RONI IM SO SO SO PROUD OF YOU!!! 

I can't wait to see where you will go with Jack :) he has improved so much.  After that we brought them up to the yard to ride, Roni just worked with Jack on ground work, I tacked Chuck up english, and let my little sister ride around for a little bit and then hopped on myself and rode for a bit, it was dark by the time we went back up to my grandmas but it was an amazing night! SO PROUD OF YOU RONI!!

Heres 2 videos from thursday night, the first is our search for the horses, the second is when we caught them, goomed, mounted and rode back :)